2001 in archaeology

List of years in archaeology (table)
… 1991 ^. 1992 ^. 1993 ^. 1994 ^. 1995 ^. 1996 ^. 1997 … 1998 1999 2000 -2001- 2002 2003 2004 … 2005 ^. 2006 ^. 2007 ^. 2008 ^. 2009 ^. 2010 ^. 2011 … In science: 1998 1999 2000 -2001- 2002 2003 2004
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Explorations

Grinnell College project at Mayapan
Excavations at Cival directed by Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli
French archaeologists begin excavating Ulug Depe, an ancient bronze-age agricultural town in Turkmenistan

Barry Cunliffe, Facing the Ocean: the Atlantic and its Peoples, 8000 BC to AD 1500. Oxford University Press, hardcover, 600 pages, ISBN 0-19-924019-1
Thomas W. Neumann and Robert M. Sanford, Practicing Archaeology: a Training Manual for Cultural Resources Archaeology. Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc, August, 2001, hardcover, 450 pages, ISBN 0-7591-0094-2
Thomas W. Neumann and Robert M. Sanford, Cultural Resources Archaeology: an Introduction. Rowman and Littlefield Pub Inc, December, 2001, trade paperback, 256 pages, ISBN 0-7591-0095-0
Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks, Theatre/Archaeology: Disciplinary Dialogues. Routledge, 240 pages, ISBN 041519458X
Donald B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, hardcover, 3 vols, ISBN 0-19-510234-7

July 20: Wreck of HMS Hood found by David Mearns in North Atlantic
November: Ringlemere Cup found by metal-detectorist Cliff Bradshaw near Dover, England.

March 29: Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer; co-discoverer of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows
July 8: Jia Lanpo, Chinese prehistorian, buried at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China
September 26: Peter J Reynolds, British experimental archaeologist
K.C. Chang, Taiwanese archaeologist; Yale and Harvard professor, author The Archaeology of Ancient China